Jocelyn Robinson
Producer for Emerging Initiatives, Education and Archives, The Eichelberger Center for Community VoicesJocelyn Robinson is a Yellow Springs, OH-based educator, media producer, and radio preservationist.
She holds a BA in Art History from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and a Master’s in Cultural Studies with a concentration in Race, Gender, and Identity from Antioch University. In 2015 she earned a graduate certificate in Public History with a focus on Archives Administration, also from Wright State.
Since 2007, she has taught transdisciplinary literature courses for Antioch University which incorporate critical cultural theory and her research interests in self-definition and identity. She also teaches community-based and college-level classes in digital storytelling and narrative journalism.
A Community Voices producer at WYSO since 2013 and an AIR New Voices Scholar in 2014, Robinson's recent projects include West Dayton Stories and contributing to the Goethe-Institut USA podcast, The Big Ponder. She was a member of the 2019 Third Coast Community Advisory Group, and a Third Coast listener in the 2021 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Robinson served as WYSO’s first Archives Fellow, producing Rediscovered Radio, short documentaries using WYSO’s civil rights era audio as source material. She continues to help guide the growth and development of the WYSO Archives.
A member of the African American and Civil Rights Radio Caucus of the Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress, in 2019 Robinson was awarded a National Recording Preservation Foundation grant to survey the archival holdings of radio stations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). She currently directs the HBCU Radio Preservation Pilot Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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In the premier issue of “West Dayton Stories Zine,” producers of WYSO’s popular series “West Dayton Stories”—including amaha sellasie, Tiffany L. Brown, Omopé Carter Daboiku, Love’Yah Stewart, and Jaylon Yates—briefly introduce themselves and give readers useful tips for everything from photography to fashion to gardening. Readers also can scan QR codes that will take them to archived episodes (some of them longer than those that first aired) from the inaugural season of the series. -
In the summer of 1973, César Chávez came to Dayton from the strike lines in Coachella, California to talk about the plight of farm workers. There was a week of activities and WYSO News was right in the middle of it. Rediscovered Radio’s Jocelyn Robinson examined the struggles facing the migrant worker community, then and now.
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Rediscovered Radio Encore reintroduces Florynce Kennedy, an outspoken attorney and activist who bridged the Women’s Liberation and Black Power Movements in the 1960s and 70s, said “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” She was outrageous and defiant and with her middle finger in the air and a cowboy hat on her head, she came to Antioch in 1971 to talk about fighting oppression. WYSO was there.
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WYSO's Jocelyn Robinson reflects on three Black women writers. The words of Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Alice Walker still hold weight today. In this encore edition of Rediscovered Radio, we listen to audio from these intelligent women found in the WYSO Archives.
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Dayton is known for invention and innovation, and there’s a new wave of creative energy coming from the West Side. Young people are making art, with deep commitment to community building and social justice.
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Music’s been a mainstay on WYSO since we began broadcasting more than 60 years ago. In this encore edition of Rediscovered Radio, project producer Jocelyn Robinson takes us back to the 1960s to meet a legendary Yellow Springs disc jockey.
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In 1974, one of the leaders of the American Indian Movement visited Yellow Springs to raise awareness for their cause. The man’s name is Clyde Bellecourt, and a recording of his speech is housed in the archives here at WYSO. Rediscovered Radio project Director Jocelyn Robinson found the audio, and produced this piece.
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The Edgemont Solar Garden on Miami Chapel Road has a long history on Dayton’s West Side. Lately it’s experienced a regeneration of sorts, with partners like Central State University and Agraria in Yellow Springs joining in to support urban agriculture.
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Rediscovered Radio Encore takes a look back to the fall of 1980 when WYSO News aired a story on the National Afro-American Museum project.
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West Dayton residents were without access to healthy foods, to quality fresh fruits and vegetables. But when the community decided to no longer accept the unacceptable, the Gem City Market emerged. And it's so much more than a grocery store.
